The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-08

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a woman in the case, by whose friends Col
| Inns is wanted. He has been masquerading
! as a widower, and was understood to be en-
gagged to a most estimable lady in the city.
FLORIDA.
LeConte pears around Lake Mystic are
| looking fine.
Oakland is building handsome Presby
terrain church.
Barlow has given 81 200 to the Orphans
| Home at Macon, Ga.
The Orange Belt railroad is operating
thirty-one miles Of road.
r. D. Gregory, of Liberty county, killed
a 400-pound bear last week.
Quarantine was raised at Tavares on
July l, and at Reedy Creek on July2
The fig crop in jefferson county has been
damaged by a superabundance of rain.
Reuben A. Strickland, of Lake Mystic,
has received a pension as a Union soldier
Mai G.. S. johnson, of Liberty county,
planted some cotton on June IA an expert
ment.
Liberty county's expenses, under the new
constitution, will amount to less than $500
per annum.
Orlando wants railroad from Orlando
to Oakland, the promising young city OF
South Florida.
The sponge crop off Apalachicola SO far
has proven failure, the vessels making lit
tie or nothing.
At Apalachicola the steamer lines an
nounce an advance of 40c. per barrel during
the low water.
The Florida Southern carried more people
over its line on the Fourth than i'll any one
day for year.
At Orange City the rains for the past few
weeks have caused the orange trees to put
on magnificent growth.
Work is progressing on the huge iron
tank at the gas works at Orlando, and also
on the company's building.
In Orange marriage licenses are now
issued by the county Judge, and not by the
clerk of the court as heretofore.
The brickwork of the Hyer- McElroy
building is now completed and the front
presents quite a handsome appearance.
Fifty hands are at work grading the
Tavares, Apopka and Gulf railroad along
the borders of Johns Lake near Oakland.
Two Orlando colored boys were put off
the homeward- bound train at Sanford on the
Fourth for refusing to give up their seat to
a lady.
A. b. Moore, of New York, has donated
TO the University Library of Tallahassee
1000 acres of Liberty county lands, well
timbered.
The work on the Methodist church at
Gainesville, which was contracted to be
done by McKeever az Stilhans, is about
completed
1t is estimated that 5000 excursionists
passed through Orlando on July T. bound
for Sanford One thousand tickets were
sold at Orlando
Bombay is to have another restaurant.
This one is to be built near the railroad, and
will prove very convenient to the travelling
public generally.
Twenty-four marriage licenses were issued
in Orange county during the month of June
Eighteen of the couples were white and the
remainder colored.
1t is rumored that brick building will
soon be erected on the vacant lot on Orange
avenue, Orlando, between the store of
Schultz Bros. and the Charleston Hotel.
The handsome new building of Slemons
& Taylor, on Church street, Orlando, west
of the railroad, is now completed, and adds
much to the appearance of that vicinity.
The present indications are that after Oct.
! next Monticello will be strictly temper
ance town-the legal voters of the district
being disinclined to sign license petitions.
The Board of Trade of Palatka is getting
up map showing Palatka as railroad
centre 1t is intended for free distribution,
and thousands of copies will be sent abroad.
Joe Ferline, colored man, was arrested
at Gainesville on Monday at the instance of
Fanny Fisher, charged with rape, and is
now confined in the county Jail to next term
of court.
The first telephone message between Jack
sonville and Pablo direct went over the
wires Wednesday, and was received at
Pablo by 0. r. Tyler from his Office in
that city.
Mr.. Hart, hotel proprietor and depot
agent at Bombay, reports receipts from pas
| senger and freight traffic increasing and
| thinks the outlook for the fall trade is very
| encouraging.
The long looked for Silsby fire engine ar
rived at St. Augustine Wednesday by the
Jacksonville and st. Augustine railroad.
This is the second engine of the kind now
possessed by the city.
which measures 14l inches in length and Is
inches in circumference. The beet was
grown in Mr.. Martins yard, just north of
the Methodist church.
At the election of officers of the North
Gainesville Literary Society on Saturday
night, w. II. Palmer was elected President
Miss Edmston Vice President, and Miss
Minnie Giddings Secretary.
The body of Wofford child who was
| buried at Orlando fourteen years ago, was
taken up on Thursday last from the grave
yard opposite the Vinegar House and in
TERED in the city cemetery.
Negotiations are on foot for the establish
ment of a Republican paper at Leesburg,
Lake county. George Fl. Mckee, formerly
editor of the Leesburg NelcS, is mentioned
in connection with the enterprise.
Up to Monday morning Monticello's great
trucker, W. NJ. Girardeau, had shipped only
eleven car loads Of watormelons. If prices
| continue remunerative he will, ere the expi-
ration of the season, ship 100 car loads.
Town Marshal W. T. Ware, of Monti-
cello accidentally took an ordinary dose of
morphine on Monday night, and it produced
such an intense stupor it was with great diff
iiculty that DR.. Theodore Turnbull aroused
him.
All the merchants of Monticello have
agreed to close their houses of business
during the summer months, on Tuesdays
and Thursdays Of each week, at o'clock p.
IN. This is in the interest of the clerks, who
desire outdoor exercise.
w. H:~Reynolds A. Russell Hargrave
and L. r. Davis have purchased the entire
interest of j. T, Sterling in the Orlando
Novelty Works, and will hereafter conduct
the business under the firm name of Rey-
nolds Hargravc a. Davis.